sendmail

[#1]

I am trying to locate the sendmail program and am using /usr/sbin/sendmail but it doesn't work.  I keep getting error messages. Any ideas? 

[#2]

"It doesn't work" and "I keep getting error messages" aren't terribly descriptive.
Perhaps if you could give some context,such as the OS version you are using (presumably Linux of some sort), what it is that isn't working, and the error messages you are encountering, I expect one of the gurus round here will be able to help

[#3]

The problem is that I cannot locate the sendmail program.  Error message 500 appears when I run the script from my webpage.  I can send the contents of the form to a text file but cannot email the contents to my self. my program for emailing  starts:  open ( MAIL,"|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t"); 

Quote from: paulh

"It doesn't work" and "I keep getting error messages" aren't terribly descriptive. Perhaps if you could give some context,such as the OS version you are using (presumably Linux of some sort), what it is that isn't working, and the error messages you are encountering, I expect one of the gurus round here will be able to help

[#4]

Are you by any chance talking about ccgi?

[#5]

what "program" are you refering to: perl, php, shellscript
on the ccgi server, sendmail is where you have stated but i'm not sure about you using open() which is to open files, not send text to sendmail.

[#6]

If you're using perl, you can use open to contact the sendmail binary.

open(SENDMAIL, "|$sendmail") or die "Cannot open $sendmail: $!";
print SENDMAIL $reply_to;
print SENDMAIL $subject;
print SENDMAIL $send_to;
print SENDMAIL "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
print SENDMAIL $content;
close(SENDMAIL);